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Degrees of Democracy

Degrees of Democracy

Soroka, Stuart N.
Wlezien, Christopher

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General Political Science

ISBN10: 0521868335
ISBN13: 9780521868334
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 14 2009
Pages: 254
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book develops and tests a thermostatic model of public opinion and policy, in which preferences for policy both drive and adjust to changes in policy. The representation of opinion in policy is central to democratic theory and everyday politics. So too is the extent to which public preferences are informed and responsive to changes in policy. The coexistence of both public responsiveness and policy representation is thus a defining characteristic of successful democratic governance, and the subject of this book. The authors examine both responsiveness and representation across a range of policy domains in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. The story that emerges is one in which representative democratic government functions surprisingly well, though there are important differences in the details. Variations in public responsiveness and policy representation responsiveness are found to reflect the salience of the different domains and governing institutions - specifically, presidentialism (versus parliamentarism) and federalism (versus unitary government).

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